GARY Rowett said Millwall didn’t receive any “appropriate” offers their fringe players before the end of the January transfer window.
The Lions were open to allowing Billy Mitchell out on loan, and the 18-year-old midfielder was also enthusiastic about a potential move, but he remained at the club.
There were also some suggestions that the likes of Aiden O’Brien and Jiri Skalak could have gone out on temporary deals.
“There wasn’t really anything close,” Rowett said. “There was nothing we thought was appropriate in terms of loan options. You are only going to loan one of your young players out if it is going to benefit the player and the cub.
“We didn’t really get anything to tempt us on the final day so we are what we are, we don’t have huge numbers, we’ve left two young players out of the squad (Mitchell and James Brown, at Sheffield Wednesday) and we’ve got two players coming back from injury (Mason Bennett and Ryan Leonard).
“We aren’t a club that has 20 or 30 players lying around and it’s up to us how we use them. It makes it easier in some ways because we have such a tight-knit group, but it also makes it difficult to have as many options as you need in a game like [Saturday’s] when you need a little bit of spark that wasn’t there.”
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